US equities shook off early weakness Wednesday, finishing higher with especially strong gains for technology and health stocks.

Data showed a strong pickup in US services sector activity in June, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

However, investor sentiment remains brittle due to worries about weak global growth, reflected in bond yields that remain near record lows.

"It seems the path of least resistence is higher just because there is a lot of liquidity," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank. "But it seems the environment is fraught with headline risk."

Gainers included biotech shares Gilead Sciences and Celgene, which won 2.2 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively.

Technology shares that gained included Facebook, up 2.4 percent, Cisco Systems, up 1.4 percent, and Apple, up 0.6 percent.

But Netflix lost 3.4 percent after investment bank Jefferies highlighted tepid subscriber growth in the US as a worry.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International shot up 15.6 percent after drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance said it was pleased with its relationship with the embattled pharma company, which has faced scrutiny of its pricing and accounting policies.

Medivation climbed 0.9 percent after announcing that it would share confidential data with Sanofi and other companies mulling a takeover of the cancer drugmaker. The move came after Medivation rejected a second bid from Sanofi of $10 billion, raised from the prior $9.3 billion offer.

Nortek, which manufactures goods in heating, cooling and ergonomics, surged 38.7 percent after agreeing to be acquired by British company Melrose Industries for about $2.8 billion.

U.S. stocks traded mildly higher Friday after bank earnings continued to impress and retail sales numbers came in better than expected.

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Nowadays market has totally change after unprecedented won by Trump election

More US market rally.....more painful for Bursa market....opposite direction due to outrun by foreign investors

Despite recent measures taken by BNM to protect & defence Ringgit Malaysia further stubbornly worsened but not much reflected on Ringgit Malaysia rebound side

So long KLCI can break 1660 then start shouting for KLCI

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i see our economy is getting better by the day.before PH took over our Boeing 787 like going to nose dive.If you had known what the terrorist had secretly done to our country.$42billion siphon off here, $8.5B siphon off there.And all the 85k monthly salary for many of his terrorist comrades in glc and plc.and our $285Billion annual budget, 20-30% is leaked by instituitionised corruption.But now all these leakages from our Boeing 787 are being plug.So are we on right path to reach our destination, or we follow Moody and Goldman Sach?Any way Goldman Sach is one of the * who arrage for the Terrorist to take on few 5Billions loans, being pad 11%. This is international Terrorist Banker.Goldman Sach did the same thing for Greece, hiding the soverign debt, only to crash Greece economy later.

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i see our economy is getting better by the day.before PH took over our Boeing 787 like going to nose dive.If you had known what the terrorist had secretly done to our country.$42billion siphon off here, $8.5B siphon off there.And all the 85k monthly salary for many of his terrorist comrades in glc and plc.and our $285Billion annual budget, 20-30% is leaked by instituitionised corruption.But now all these leakages from our Boeing 787 are being plug.So are we on right path to reach our destination, or we follow Moody and Goldman Sach?Any way Goldman Sach is one of the * who arrage for the Terrorist to take on few 5Billions loans, being pad 11%. This is international Terrorist Banker.Goldman Sach did the same thing for Greece, hiding the soverign debt, only to crash Greece economy later.